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I will praise the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God all my life long.

Happy are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord their God,

The Lord will reign forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Praise the Lord !

Praise the Lord ! How good it is to sing praises to our God; for he is gracious, and a song of praise is fitting.

Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving; make melody to our God on the lyre.

Praise the Lord , O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion!

Let the high praises of God be in their throats and two-edged swords in their hands,

Praise the Lord ! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty firmament!

then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.

So you will find favor and good repute in the sight of God and of people.

It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.

The words of Agur son of Jakeh. An oracle. Thus says the man: I am weary, O God, I am weary, O God. How can I prevail?

Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

or I shall be full, and deny you, and say, "Who is the Lord ?" or I shall be poor, and steal, and profane the name of my God.

applied my mind to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven; it is an unhappy business that God has given to human beings to be busy with.

There is nothing better for mortals than to eat and drink, and find enjoyment in their toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God;

For to the one who pleases him God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

I have seen the business that God has given to everyone to be busy with.

He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

I know that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; God has done this, so that all should stand in awe before him.